Shillong: The BJP on last day said that there would not be any beef ban in Meghalaya and alleged that the congress was misleading the people on the issue to gain political mileage ahead of the assembly elections next year.
BJP spokesperson J A Lyngdoh said in a statement that the party "has already clarified that it (beef ban) will not be imposed in the northeastern states. Livestock is a state subject. It is up to the states to decide".
He also said beef ban would not be imposed in the state, adding preventing cow slaughter was neither a good economic measure nor had constitutional backing.
